Posted on 04/09/2005 11:14:41 AM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
I love Prince Charles. My wife hates him, which is why I’m expressing my point of view while she is out taking my daughter to Karate lessons and I am suppose to be mowing the lawn.
I suppose Charles has not mowed any lawns of late, and I hold no grudge for that. Personally, I love mowing and gardening (I’ve heard tell the Prince also loves to get into the garden), but this was my chance to take a peek at some of the CNN coverage of the wedding. I think I should get right to the point, for those who try to poke fun at “the looks” of Camilla Parker Bowles, I say it’s envy and I say she is one fine looking lady for any woman of her same age, and she is personable and I don’t care what her “background” is or was, she carries a royal decorum of a mannered and elegant female – I congratulate the Prince on such a fine choice. For those of my conservative brothers who criticize the Prince in such vulgar manner to point out his ears, I should only point out President Bush’s ears, or face for that manner, in conjunction with “What Me Worry?” and remind those that as many and much more say the Prince is a handsome man and I would agree. By the way, I am a conservative, a nationalist, but not a Bushie, yet I want to assure that I find my President is also a handsome man and a moral man.
The royalty is in a sense also the head of the church, and the medieval moralists have warned us against envy as one of the seven deadly sins. We hear a lot of sins lately, and of the need to confess sins to consummate this marriage – but let me speak on one of the seven deadly sins called envy.
For those of you who are envious of the Prince, of this wedding, and his Lady, I say that your envy is sin, and it is not enough to avoid envy but you must learn to appreciate other’s achievements and rejoice in their success and good fortune. I rejoice in the achievements of this Prince, and in his good fortune, I feel this marriage of love will bring him good times to the end.
Opps! My wife is back! I’ve got to go …
So, the end to all this Prince bashing.
The wedding is Swan Lake, not only as theatre but in goodness and elegance. Prince Charles, I wish you good joy on this day, congratulations on your marriage to such a Lady, and best wishes from America! I know you’re actually of French blood, but I don’t hold that against you, and I always admired a good Norman.
I've always thought of the Royal Family as a bunch of inbred, dysfunctional welfare recipients. Sort of like the Kennedys over here. Don't know what the Brits see in them. Anyway, to each their own. I have resigned myself to the fact that most people are into tabloid trash and will thus obsess over this kind of petty stuff.
Hear Hear! Anyone wonder why we dumped "Great" Britain in 1776?!
I agree. To me, there are like anything else that is just plain fun. We don't need them, true, but we also don't need chocolate chip ice cream!
I met Prince Andrew. It was great fun, but, boy, you'd think they could spring for the orthodontia.
Ok, THEY ARE.
Well, C & C are certainly a good fit. Too bad he waited till so late in life to snub Mummy with his choice of a wife. Too bad, too, about the whole adultery thing. What I thought was intriguing was that Parker-Bowles' ex is on the guest list for the church ceremony...hmmm...
In great need of dental work.
Good point about the ears ;-)
In any case, I wish Charles and Camilla all the best.
So color me 'tainted'.
I saw Prince Philip save a woman's life once. It was a moving thing. I had a lot more respect for him after that, particularly as he did it when almost no one was around--no reporters to record his deed, certainly. I have never seen this mentioned in the press.
If this "royal" family wasn't worth billions, they'd be right at home in an Arkansas double-wide.
I caught the same feeling watching FOX cover the wedding. All the women seemed to enjoy mocking the whole affair. It's like FOX went out of it's way to find anti-Camilla protesters. There was more happiness at the Popes funeral than at Charles wedding. It was real transparent on FOX's part.
Other than the fact that Charles is a funny-looking leftist with a below-average IQ who lives on welfare and married a frumpy-looking woman who actually stuck wheat in her hair for the wedding after cheating on and abandoning his reasonably hot-looking actual wife, I agree with you.
Hey, I agree with you. I've avoided the wedding threads because they are nothing but snide remarks and horse cartoons.
The royals are unimportant in the big picture, but they are more important than Sean Penn and Julia Roberts, in whom there is a disproportionate amout of interest over here.
Camilla was Charles first love (and you know how that is). They broke up when he joined the Royal Navy. Camilla married someone else. Charles had a stern, demanding father who preferred the more athletic and good looking brothers.
He was bullied into marrying someone he didn't love.
They were totally unsuited. He shouldn't have done it, but, hey, he didn't exactly commit an ax murder.
Camilla is a perfectly nice looking woman. It always touched me (for some strange reason) that he preferred a slightly dowdy middle-aged woman to the glamorous wife.
Congrats and best wishes to both of them!!
"I have resigned myself to the fact that most people are into tabloid trash and will thus obsess over this kind of petty stuff."
I don't understand why two adulterers getting married is cause for celebration, but that just may be my Catholic roots showing. I also don't understand most of the stuff that passes for TV anymore (and I'm in my early 30s, so I know I am not just being old and grouch), but if you make any comments on it, you are looked on as a prude and judgmental. Oh, well...
LOL
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